Construction Starts Fell in November,
While Nonresidential Building Grew

The value of new-construction contracts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $478.2 billion, due to a decline in housing and public-works projects, according to the latest report from F.W. Dodge, a building-research division of publisher McGraw-Hill Cos. Nonresidential buildings showed improvement for the third month in a row, the...